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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: rise of political action committees
    sub title: interest group electioneering and the transformation of American politics
  name:
    name part: Charnock, Emily J.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: History
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (374 pages).
  abstract: "This book explores the origins of Political Action Committees (PACs) in the mid-20th Century and their impact on the American party system. It argues that PACs were envisaged, from the outset, as tools for effecting ideological change in the two main parties, thus helping to foster the partisan polarization we see today. It shows how the very first PAC, created by the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) in 1943, explicitly set out to liberalize the Democratic Party, by channeling campaign resources to liberal Democrats while trying to defeat conservative Southern Democrats. This organizational model and strategy of "dynamic partisanship" subsequently diffused through the interest group world - imitated first by other labor and liberal allies in the 1940s and '50s, only to be adopted and inverted by business and conservative groups in the late 1950s and early '60s. Previously committed to the "conservative coalition" of Southern Democrats and Northern Republicans, they came to embrace a more partisan approach, and created new PACs to help refashion the Republican Party into a conservative counterweight. The Rise of Political Action locates this PAC mobilization in the larger story of interest group electioneering, which went from a rare and highly controversial practice at the beginning of the 20th Century to a ubiquitous phenomenon today. It also offers a fuller picture of PACs as far more than financial vehicles, but electoral innovators who pioneered strategies and tactics that have come to pervade modern US campaigns, as well as transform the American party system"--
  table of contents: Introduction : going into politics -- Interests and elections -- Pressure as prologue -- A tale of two leagues -- Electoral afterlives -- Introducing P.A.C. -- A labor-liberal constellation -- When business is not buisiness-like -- A tale of two PACs -- Conclusion : the House that P.A.C. built.
  note: Emily J. Charnock.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Political action committees
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Campaign funds
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Lobbying
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Pressure groups
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Comités d'action politique
    geographic: États-Unis
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: Lobbying
    geographic: États-Unis
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: Comparative Politics
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE
  subject:
    topic: History & Theory
  subject:
    topic: Political Process
  subject:
    topic: Campaign funds
  subject:
    topic: Lobbying
  subject:
    topic: Political action committees
  subject:
    topic: Pressure groups
  subject:
    geographic: United States
  classification: JK1991 .C45 2020
  classification: 324/.40973
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    origin info:
      publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020.
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  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 200210
    record change date: 20260319181919.7
    record identifier: in00005718201
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng